SAFE IN CHRIST by Mrs. H. W. Smith

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 12, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 28.

SAFE IN CHRIST.

By Mrs. H. W. Smith

WHEN I was in England a lady told me a sweet story illustrative of what it is to have Christ between us and everything else. She said she was wakened up by a very strange noise of pecking, or something of the kind, when she got up she saw a butterfly flying backward and forward, inside the window-pane, in great fright, and outside a sparrow, pecking and trying to get in. The butterfly did not see the glass and expected every minute to be caught, and the sparrow did not see the glass and expected every minute to catch the butterfly, yet all the while that butterfly was as safe as if it had been three miles away, because of the glass between it and the sparrow. So it is with the Christians who are abiding in Christ. His presence is between them and every danger. I do not believe that Satan understands about this mighty and invisible power that protects us, or else he would not waste his efforts by trying to get us. He must be like the sparrow—he does not see it, and Christians like the butterfly—they do not see it, and so they are frightened and flutter backward and forward in terror; but all the while Satan can not touch the soul that has the Lord Jesus Christ between itself and him.

—Mrs. H. W. Smith.